Public Health

Will Pharmacology Be Where Genomic Research Translates Into Clinical Care?

Genomic research will transform medicine but progress has been slower than expected, leading critics to charge that the promise of genomics was hyperbole to get funding mandates and that while research should continue, the bulk of the money earmarked beca ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 5 2013 - 11:35am

Diet, Exercise? Maybe That 170 Lb. Perfect Woman Of 100 Years Ago Just Had Good Genes

The dramatic increase in obesity over the past few decades has been tightly associated with an increase in obesity-related conditions such as type 2 diabetes, heart disease and cancer. Of course, it's also been associated with a change in the definit ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 8 2013 - 8:12pm

Federal Microbiological Data Program For Food Testing Shut Down

The Obama administration has terminated the Microbiological Data Program created under President George W. Bush and his 2001 Food Safety Initiative. During its run, MDP conducted 80 percent of all federal produce testing for pathogens like Salmonella and L ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 11 2013 - 5:30am

Misdiagnosis Of Genetic Disorder Led To Thousands Of Unnecessary Kidney Surgeries

A new study indicates that  thousands of individuals have had kidneys removed unnecessarily because doctors misdiagnosed their disease. 20% of individuals with kidney tumors common in patients with tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC), a genetic disorder, has ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 10 2013 - 9:08pm

Lap Banding Works For Chronically Obese

While every study ever done shows that people who consume fewer calories than they burn will lose weight, it is as well known that some people cannot or will not eat less or exercise. For those people, laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding – lap banding ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 17 2013 - 12:00pm

Evolving Poor Sperm? Semen Quality Of Young Men In Spain Down 38 Percent

Public health scholars in Spain say they have done the first comparative study on the evolution of sperm quality in young Spanish men and found that over a ten year period, spermatozoid concentration in men between 18 and 23 years in the regions of Murcia ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 20 2013 - 11:47am

Chinese E-waste Site Proximity Linked To Higher Cancer Rates

During our zeal to recapture manufacturing like Apple iPhone and solar panel construction during the last four years, something obvious was ignored; the environmental hazards were never going to be acceptable in the USA. The rich people who can afford the ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 23 2013 - 11:11am

Microbiologist Says BPA Seen Causing Disease Generations Later

A group of researchers say they have shown environmental toxicants can negatively affect as many as three generations of an exposed animal's offspring. Washington State University scientists led by molecular biologist Michael Skinner says he  found r ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 28 2014 - 12:39am

London Has Lowest HPV Vaccine Rates In England

The British Department of Health's marketing campaign to school girls and their parents for the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination program has so far proven to be one of the most successful in the world- except in London.   A Healthcare Protectio ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 30 2013 - 12:58pm

IV Drug Users: Target 'Super-Spreaders' To Stop Hepatitis C

A new estimate is that each intravenous drug user contracting Hepatitis C could infect around 20 other people with the virus, half of these transmissions occurring in the first two years after the user is first infected. ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 2 2013 - 7:32pm